Adding Glamour to your ride!

It has been couple of days since I posted any blogs. I was busy looking at some spanking new products that would enhance my ride. I had been thinking of going to the car dealership to upgrade some features of my car, but the exorbitant prices they charge discouraged me. Recently I found an online store where one can buy OEM Car Parts for the right price and get it installed at a local garage or if one is handy it can be self accomplished.

Well, naturally I was thrilled by the fact that Auto Parts were so affordable here while at the dealership they cost so much more. For example I wanted to replace the A/c compressor in my Saturn L series vehicle. The dealership had quoted $1,500 including labor for the job. When I questioned the rationale they had said there was a parts cost of $1200 and $300 was for labor. Here on OEM Auto Parts the cost of a brand new OEM compressor is only $495. This is indeed a significant savings.

I now understand how car dealerships make so much money, they simply overprice everything, just because they are bigger corporations. I believe that we can accomplish the same upgrades to our cars at a much lower price if we buy parts here and install it ourselves or get it done at a local mechanic.

Cars... Cars... and more Cars...

I had been to a automobile junkyard sometime ago and here are some of the images I captured at that time. I shot these pictures because they offer a satirical view of life.... How everything changes and becomes a heap of junk ultimately.

Nobody to buy or sell ice creams.....

Oil change!!! Looks like this vehicle needs lot more than just oil change

Christian school bus awaiting students... or God's grace for deliverance?

Beautify your Trucks this summer!!!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of RealTruck.Com. All opinions are 100% mine.

I love trucks, though I am yet to own one. I have noticed that trucks, like motorcycles are enjoyed more during summer. Probably because people here love to spend more time outdoors during the sunny summer months. This is also the time when the trucks and cars start getting makeovers. Enthusiastic truck owners work on their trucks and enhance both the beauty as well as power of the vehicle. New paint jobs are commissioned, different truck accessories such as mufflers, lights, racks, etc are installed.

Showrooms and online stores refurbish their inventory of parts and accessories which will enable enthusiastic owners to customize their vehicles. Whether one owns one of the most popular pickups and cars from American manufacturers such as Ford, GM, Chrysler, Jeep, etc or imported cars such as Mazda, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, or Toyota; they all make a beeline to online parts and accessories stores to get their preferred items to dress up, modify or upgrade their loved set of wheels.

Some people prefer to modify their vehicles under the hood and work on enhancing the engine performance, maybe install new exhaust systems and get the preferred sound. Others prefer to make their cars look better by installing custom front bumpers, grilles, hood, side windows, truck rack, truck beds, tailgates, seats, etc.

In this jungle of automobile accessories there are few top brands that enthusiasts look for. Brands such as Access, Weathertech, Westin, TruXedo and others are more popular than others.

The best incentive of online shopping is always the cheaper price. Stores such as RealTruck.com provide a low price guarantee.

Save on Auto Insurance!!!

Automobile ownership comes with several costs and many studies have proved that Insurance can be one of the top costs. I guess these studies are old because I just found a great new website where I can get Free Auto Insurance Quotes from a wide array of providers and choose the best that works. The website claims to provide you upto $500 savings on your insurance payments.

I decided to check it out for myself and visited PremiumAutoInsurance.net. I opted to get quotes from Geico and Nationwide insurance companies. We have two cars in our family. I commute to school and work while my significant other works from home. So her car is pretty much a vehicle for leisure. Under these circumstances I wanted to know if any savings could be achieved by switching to a new insurance provider.

The quotes I received online were free so that is one hassle free transaction. As per the Geico quote I stand to save over $800 a year on our auto insurance costs. That is a great saving indeed. Nationwide's quote was not so attractive, but did give me a small discount from the present rate.


After my experience with PremiumAutoInsurance.net I would encourage you all to check it out before buying insurance. If your insurance is due for renewal I'd suggest you consider your options and see if you can save money before blindly renewing your policy with the current provider.

Weekend Picnic: Visit to an Automobile Junkyard

Yesterday we did something totally outrageous and sort of adventurous. We went to an automobile junkyard looking for a set of good used tires for our Toyota 4 Runner. After visiting couple of junkyards and looking at what they have to offer, we simply decided to forget all about it and buy brand new tires from Firestone or some such store.

Thousands of dead cars, awaiting a decent funeral. Being mauled and molested even after their demise...

The first place we visited was a U-pull it yard. What does that mean? Well simply put, it is a vast area.. maybe 40-50 acres of open space piled up with crashed, trashed and junked cars of all perceivable models, makes, sizes, shapes and colors. One has to pay $1 to enter inside and pull out anything from any car out there, come out pay for it and take it home. In a nutshell, I'd call this place as a big graveyard for cars and a few motorcycles. People come here and salvage the parts they need and repair their cars cheaper.

Parking lot or a stack of crashed cars?

Anyone who is proud of their car and feels like a king behind the wheel should not visit this place. The once proud boy toys lie in mangled heaps all over the place. There are ice-cream vending vehicles, automobile maintenance vehicles gone into disuse, church vans and many more.

Once Proudly owned and lovingly maintained cars.. now nothing but a stack of sheet metal..

There's beauty at the far end of the junk yard... a quaint lake with beautiful bird life. But I wonder how long the lake is going to live? As Americans use and crash more cars, many more are going to end up in places like this and when space becomes scarce, the first thing to get hit is the creek. I hope it doesn't happen.

Nature thrives, where human beings don't meddle... even in junk yards

Sourcing Parts for my cars!

Since moving to US about 18 months ago I have been learning a lot of new stuff. I have learned that one has to do his own job here because labor is very expensive. Another important part of shopping for anything in the us is to look for the same product in multiple locations, to make sure you are not being ripped off.

One area where I was not doing this much is when buying auto parts. I would let the repair guys take care of it. But recently I got top-dollar repair estimate. I decided that I need to check out if the parts they are quoting for really cost so much. I just got online and searched.

I found a website known as GreatAutoParts.com where one could buy almost every part of the car and being an online entity the prices are great too. The exhaustive parts catalog is easy to use and it takes only a few minutes to find what you are looking for. Curiosity helped me find a wonderful new resource and saved me lots of $$$s. Unfortunately I didn't do this earlier, I wish I had. It would have saved me much more.

So if you are in the market for auto parts, don't let the dealer decide. Take matters in your own hand and visit Great Auto Parts website. You may be surprised by what you find.

Guaranteed Car Repairs

During the past year and a half in the US I have come to realize one thing. It is near impossible to live in this country without a car. Public transport facilities are abysmal and even the poorest sections of the population have a car. Anyway cars come with their own costs and problems. One of the main issues with owning a car is its maintenance and god forbid if you get into an accident.

Getting a real good autobody shop to restore your car to its gleaming best and guarantee the repairs is probably tough to find. The internet perhaps is the answer, everyone searches for an answer on it. The internet is where you can find America's best autobody shops. The auto body shop yorba linda offers guaranteed repairs for life, all the body work, paint work and engine work will be done here to your complete satisfaction. What more would you possibly want? Oh! Yes, are these shops insurance approved? Is it possible to run a successful autobody shop without getting insurance company approval? Quite impossible.

So be rest assured if are in Yorba Linda, CA the best autobody shops are found online just visit the website and find the nearest auto body shop yorba linda.

Best place for genuine Volvo and Saab Parts

Volvo and Saab are two premium brands of cars here in the United States. Being premium cars, spare parts of both cars can be quite pricey. Sometimes finding the right part to replace the worn one in your trusted Saab or Volvo could be quite tough. The internet has some solutions in the form of websites which sell automobile parts. But there again not every website would hold an inventory of
Saab parts or Volvo parts.

While recently helping a friend find some parts for his Volvo, I came across this website known as Swedish Parts Network, which prides itself in having a vast inventory of Volvo and Saab parts. This site is a no-frills website, simple and easy to navigate and find parts that you need. They are not trying to impress you with fancy graphics or music. They just want to help you find the parts your car needs.

The selection of Volvo and Saab Auto parts is complete and comprehensive. Everything ranging from power steering, brakes, engine spares, etc are available. All you need to do is just order them and they will be shipped to your doorstep. Sounds cool! doesn't it?

I would recommend you to visit the Saab Parts website and confirm for yourself about their offerings.

Involved in an Auto Accident? Find solutions here!!!

In most parts of the US it is possible to live without legs but not without a set of wheels. Therefore it is not surprising that this country consumes 40 percent of the world's fuel and accounts to nearly 30 percent of all the green house emissions.

Quite naturally automobile maintenance and repairs is a big business in the US. But like all other places there are good places and there are bad places and finding a good place without burning fingers is the key here. Suppose you are in Colorado, the mountain state of the US, where keeping your automobile in top running condition is vitally important. How would you find auto body shops denver, that is good and that is in location convenient to you? The simplest way to do that is to visit the Collision Repair Experts online directory.

This website is perhaps the best online directory and the simplest to use too. The site offers you facilities to search by zip code, city name or even by state and city. The best part of this website is that they don't list every shop in the area, only those that meet stringent listing requirements are listed on this site. So when you visit a shop from this website you can be assured that they meet all the requirements. One of the requirements is the customer satisfaction index, a least rating of 95 % is required to be listed here.